EDRD 619 Module 5 Word Vocabulary in Lesson Plans

My learning in Module 5 this week exposed me to considering specific word vocabulary in lesson plans. It opened my eyes to the possibilities that students may not be familiar with certain words. The argument was floated about whose job it is to teach vocabulary and, realistically, Module 5 suggested ways of embedding difficult words into lessons that worked for introducing, teaching, and using words into lessons.

In Module 3 Fisher and Frey (2020, pp. 6 – 7) taught discipline-specific elements in text such as history being journalistic, science organized into introductory paragraphs, and English being narratives. Dovetailing from these structures the research of Module 5, vocabulary words in text, Fisher and Frey (2020, pp. 39 – 46) taught the methodologies of Vocabulary in English; Vocabulary in Social Studies; Vocabulary in Mathematics; and Vocabulary in Science.

The example I used in Module 5 was a 6^th grade science text as discovered at https://www.oakmeadow.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/Grade-6-Basic-Life-Science-Coursebook-Curriculum-Sample.pdf

I learned about PRS cards from our Schneider and Ming (2019) reading of morphology. My example for the assignment may be found at https://careerswitchereducator.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/prs-card.docx

I was exposed to considering word content in a lesson plan. My example lesson plan for the assignment may be found at https://careerswitchereducator.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/vocabulary-planning-document-of-mark-fearer.pdf